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Minion Monies: How much did my 2020 New Zealand & Asia Trip Cost?

ByTravelling Minion June 26, 2022 0 Comments
The following will be an accounting of my 2020 trip to Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand trip. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1906.67 & 208,000 Points) The Flights ($1076.90) The "Complicated Booking" ($628.06 &...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2022 Maui Trip Cost?

ByTravelling Minion June 18, 2022 1 Comment
The following will be an accounting of the Maui Trip I took with several friends in March and April of 2022. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1279.12 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) The Flights ($401.11 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) Booking a...

Wrapping up our trip to Maui

ByTravelling Minion June 12, 2022 3 Comments
Now that blogging about Maui is done. It's time to wrap it up with a few thoughts. This being the first "real" international trip I've taken since the pandemic, I'm glad it went as planned without much disruption! If you've spent the time to read through the trip, I appreciate it! If not and you want to, you can find the whole trip here. Here we go! Top 3 Highlights Highlight #1: Learning to Surf...

Last Days in Maui

ByTravelling Minion June 4, 2022 1 Comment
a'a Roots Health Cafe Our first stop for today is new spot for our daily acai bowl at a'a Roots Health Cafe.  This is spot is purported to have a pretty good one. However, either they were too busy, or its just normal they forgot to add honey on all of our bowls. So while it still looks nice, it did lack a fair bit of flavour. Maybe its intentional or maybe they simply forgot because it was...

More Road Tripping and Relaxing

ByTravelling Minion May 29, 2022 3 Comments
Breakfast and Coffee Right across the street from our airBnB is a cool little coffee shop called Hawaiian Village Coffee. It seems fairly popular because in the morning there is a line right out the door. We end up waiting a little before ordering and getting our coffees. In the same plaza is a McDonald's and who could pass up an opportunity to get a Hawaiian McDonald's breakfast of rice, eggs...

Surfing, Chilling and Eating

ByTravelling Minion May 22, 2022 1 Comment
Learning to Surf One of the things that all of us were excited to do on this trip is learn a bit of surfing! After a little research, Antetokounmpo booked lessons for us with the Royal Hawain Surf Academy. While we are all eager to do this, it is an early 7:45AM lesson so its another early start for all of us. We get ourselves checked in, wet suited up and hit the waves! Unfortunately, I don't...